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‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...

Defence Secretary Ainsworth yesterday conceded in High Court proceedings that there must be an investigation into whether UK soldiers murdered a number of...

DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester yesterday voted almost unanimously for Composite Motion 10, Defending public services and for Paragraphs 3.1 and 3.13...

PC WAYNE Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard was sentenced yesterday to a ‘whole life order’, which means he will never be...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday accused Israel of failing to assist wounded Palestinians after finding four small children next to...

IN THE middle of the greatest ever capitalist crisis, Labour leader Miliband, while the ruling class is attacking and robbing the working class...

Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...

‘FOLLOWING last week’s vote, it is clear that the government’s approach had to change, and it has,’ Tory PM Theresa May insisted, coming back...

ANGRY GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) were on picket lines outside Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London...

‘AN occupation now is the way forward for GM Luton and Vauxhall Ellesmere Port to defend jobs. A mass meeting at GM Luton is...

THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...

KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...

IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...

MISH'AN al-Juburi, director of the Al-Ra’y Satellite Channel, has said that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gadaffi is still in Libya fighting side by side...

TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...

The exposure of the UK to the US sub-prime loans crisis will push up mortgage rates in the UK, a former Bank of England...

TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...

‘Suspend – not stop indefinitely – suspend your imposition. This strike will be off,’ Unite transport union leader Tony Woodley pledged yesterday. He was speaking...

more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...

‘OUR union leaders are telling everybody our dispute is finished but it is not finished,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News...

THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...

RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...

THE LEADER of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday poured scorn on Tory government claims to be increasing the NHS workforce by 10,000 nurses...

Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...

THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...

all members of the House of Commons Culture Committee were tailed by journalists or private investigators employed by the News of the World, it...

TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

OVER four million public sector workers are set to strike over pensions this November, after trade union leaders announced at the TUC congress yesterday...

WORKERS employed by privateer Carillion at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon have voted 98.3% in favour of industrial action over job losses, pay...

Hezbollah fighters yesterday repulsed sporadic attempts by Israeli forces to control the town of Bint Jubayl two miles inside south Lebanon. A number of Israeli...

IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...

THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...

‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...

ISRAELI occupation forces killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday morning, as attacks continued across multiple areas of the enclave...

A REPORT published in error on National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) website and quickly taken down, has revealed a secret plan for the deployment...

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) yesterday condemned the coalition government’s decision to use ‘bounty hunters’ to tackle alleged benefit fraud. The charity was commenting...

Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...

The European arm of private US healthcare giant United Health is poised to take over two GP practices in Derbyshire covering 7,500 patients, one...

‘WE visited 30 sites and found no Weapons of Mass Destruction’ in Iraq, but the United States was on a ‘military high’ and decided...

‘There should be no question of making patients pay for operations that are considered essential by their doctor or consultant,’ insisted UNISON head of...

RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...

OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...

THE BMA’s England GP committee has voted not to accept a contract agreement with NHS England and condemned the recently-published draft service specifications outlining...

PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...